Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-29
are accurately stated as follows:

III does not require laOOreQ QemOnSUra-
ton to show the interesting point in this
exhibit. To the taxpayers of Ohio it is
painfully plain. The one pre-eminently
extravagant and reckless session of the
Ohio legislature was the home-stretch
session of the Hoadly administration.
That body was so open-handed with the
money wrung from the industries of Ohio
at time of financial depression that it,
for the first time in a dozen years,
skipped up to the three-million notch of
expenditures, then jumped half million
more, and still not taking time for draw
ing a sober breath started out courage
ously for the four million mark, which it
would soon have reached but for the final
adjournment, which came none too soon,
at the demand of people who were i'm
patient for that legislature to close and
i've oblivion a chance to commence its
! eneficent work.
"Mr. Powell makes lame attempt to
explain away the force of this exhibit by
saying that the Democratic legislature of
1884 and 1885 was called upon to make
some extraordinary appropriations, and
N this connection he mentions the flood
IN the Ohio River and the relief voted to
she sufferers by that visitation. But the
great food of the Hoadly administration,
which possesses the most political interest
Just now, is the flood of the appropria-
ioHs in 1885, when the old high-water
mark was reached and covered, and new
nark was made-a mark on the public
guide-post which now warns the people
not to desire repetition of that which
tefell the state with the incoming of Mr..
aoadly and the Democratic general as
sembly of 1884
''Mr. Powell's excuse of extraordinary
appropriations by the last Democratic leg
lslature is, as lawyer would say, wholly
bad on demurrer, because all Legislatures
are called upon to make extraordinary
appropriations. He mentions of this ma
sure the expense Of the Cincinnati riots,
reaching, according to his own figures,
b58, ,578. IA; but the last Republican legis-
lature appropriated an almost equal
amount-namely, $50, ,270. 22-to pay for
sending the National guard to Cincinnati
to prevent loss of life and destruction of
property in May, 1886. So one extraor-
binary appropriation here about balances
The other. He likewise mentions Demo
cratic appropriation of $125, 900 in 1884
10 repair the canals, but the Republicans
IN 1886 expended $92, 900 for the same
purpose. He says that in 1885 the Demo-
Tatic legislature gave another large sum
TO the canals, but the Republican legis-
lature did the same thing again in 1887.
h
legislature of 1886 and 1887 expended
more money on extraordinary but merit
srious demands than did its predecessor
sn similar demands. The Republican leg
stature gave nearly $50, 900 to improve the
state fair grounds. This was an unusual
demand. Hoadly's administration had
no such call to meet. The Republican
legislature established and paid for new
home for the blind. Its Democratic pre-
jecessor let the call for that charity go
unheeded. Last winter the Republicans
appropriated over 800, 900 to complete
and furnish the new asylum for the IN
sane at Toledo, and Mr.. Powell would
not deny that the completion of new
institution of this kind is not only an
unusual, but highly necessary work in
Ohio. And only last March one of the
concluding acts of the Republican gen.
eral assembly was to appropriate a round
100000 for the extraordinary but
patriotic purpose of building the Soldiers
hszne at Sandusky-an institution which
Is intended to take old soldiers out of the
infirmaries of Ohio, where they wear the
badge of paupers, and give them the hon
orable shelter which the Democratic leg
islature, which Mr.. Powell extOls, did
not think it necessary to make an ex-
traordinary appropriation to provide. So
it goes in the matter of extraordinary ap-
preparations. They do not and cannot
be made to explain the enormous ex-
penditures of the Democratic year 1885.
A good healthy Democratic schoolboy
ought to be expected to do better in this
respect than Mr.. Powell has done in
opening his campaign.
''The gentleman mentions that I said
this on the floor of the house:
"I have a word to say, and say it in
the way of warning to the Republican
members on this floor. At the present
rate, 1t will be said, and said truthfully
of this legislature, that it was not only
more extravagant than its Democratic
predecessor, but the most recklessly ex-
travagant legislative body that ever as
sembled in Ohio
cat the present rate the result L
feared would, perhaps, been reached;
but the rate at which some members
sought to have appropriations made was
checked, SO that while the aggregate
amount expended from the general reve-
nue. was still larger than it should have
been, it was yet within the bounds Of